Hollywood's Digital Dawdling - BusinessWeek

"The basic problem is that Hollywood is attempting to preserve an analog business model in a digital age. The result is a crazy quilt of availability in different media, in different geographies, and at different times. Our Man in Havana turns up now and then on cable channels, and the DVD has been available from Sony in Britain since 2005. But that disk is coded so it only works in European 'Zone 2' players, not in North America. All of this makes little sense in a world where digital copies, legal or otherwise, are freely available."